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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The devil is an angel too.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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